women physicians

Presents a short biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, who in 1849 became the first women to earn a medical degree in the United States and discusses the challenges she faces and her efforts to provide better health care to women and children.

The author tells the story of her painful childhood in China where she lived until the age of fourteen with her father, stepmother, and siblings, all of whom considered her bad luck because her mother died shortly after giving birth to her.

In this follow-up to "Blindsighted," rural Georgia coroner Sara Liston, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver (who is also her ex-husband), and Detective Lena Adams look into the death of a young girl whose terrible secrets compelled her to commit public suicide.

Dr. Toby Harper, attempting to track a patient who disappeared out of the Springer Hospital emergency room, finds herself on the trail of a deadly epidemic.

Pathologist Dr. Maura Isles discovers that the lifeless body on the medical examiner's table is her identical twin and sets out to investigate the murder of the sister she never knew she had.

Dr. Claire Elliot, having moved from the city with her son to set up practice in Tranquility, Maine, is looking forward to a peaceful life, but when the town's teenagers start committing violent acts, Claire knows she has to find the cause before it ruins Tranquility and her family.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, from freelancing in South Florida at the request of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner to solve the murder of a 14-year-old girl, but she finds that nothing is as she left it. Her former lab is being demolished; the chief isn't really the one who requested her; her former assistant chief has had personal problems that he refuses to reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent meddles with the case.

Former South Carolina forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta takes a case in New York in which a patient in a psychiatric prison asks to speak to her about wounds he claims were inflicted during a murder he did not commit, and after talking with the man, she starts to believe he is telling the truth and a serial killer is on the loose.